"It concerns me that you see kids sitting in front of a television screen tapping buttons now, when I'd be out waving a wooden stick around as a rifle, defending a pile of mud. Of course, times change, but I hope computers aren't the only option today."

"Sometimes you want to let go, sometimes you want to do something uncharacteristic. Some people want to go out and get destroyed, some want to do something that makes them feel different—it's an escapism in whatever way you want it to be."

"I suppose I'm trying to upset the expected rhythms of daily circumstance, exploring what it means to be a tribal human preoccupied with the status of toothpaste, the floppiness of pasta, eroticism of rubbish, or tedium of hair."

Helen Marten, who just won the Turner Prize, in our Dec/Jan 2012 issue #WCW

"When I was 16, I went to a record label ... I did a showcase and sang them three of my songs. Afterwards they sat me on a stool and asked me, 'Do you want to be like Pink or Katy Perry?' And I thought, 'Oh, what have I gotten myself into?'"

"I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship: 'Well, I'm so good in my own, I don't need anybody.' They're like, 'We could just hang out,' and I'm like, 'Not for too long ... let's not get too comfortable with each other.'"